
A new analysis from the Cato Institute says Trump administration immigration policies have left more than a million applications unprocessed while collecting over $1 billion in fees, a practice the report's author describes as "the largest fraud in the history of the U.S. immigration system."
The report estimates that roughly 2 million immigration-benefit applications are currently frozen worldwide, with more than half tied to applicants from Cuba, Venezuela, and Haiti. These cases span a wide range of benefits, including work permits, green cards, asylum claims, naturalization petitions, and temporary visas.